Category: Designing

Hi hi. Well it’s been a while. My poor parents have been having a rotten year so far, with blips and breaks and unluckies, and a big move in the middle of it all. They have pretty much decided that with the last thing — a broken hip for my dad — they are done […]

So I’ve been smooching my fridge a lot. Last week I went to market in Vegas to display Pippin canvases to shops. It went great, the new designs were a hit and the old ones made an excellent showing too. Feeling blessed! Each vendor had a hotel room that they used to display and shopowners […]

I’m very excited to show these guys all finished up! For me stockings always take a while to evolve and develop. I had a sketch I liked for a while and was so happy to finally get a chunk of time to get back and paint, but that was start and stop and they hung […]

Well the parade of new Pippin designs continues. I took a break yesterday in case anyone was at risk of Pippin-itis. I wonder how that would affect a person? Good luck if it is the same as I get: A total obsession with colours like hot pink, lime green and mango orange, sudden outbreaks of […]

The deeply spiritual, sophisticated rollout of new designs and the achingly detailed descriptions of the intellectual vortex they swirled out of continues: I just like avocados. (There’s a dozens, a doorstop, and a small round on 18 that would be a cute ornament, fit into a box top, or a luggage tag. I aspire to […]

So glasses are on my mind a lot now. My eyes are dim, I cannot see. I’ve reached the stage of being in a store and being unable to read the ingredients list no matter how much I squint or how far I hold it from my face. And I’ve scratched my head repeatedly at […]